Tré Cool

Male

BornDec 9, 1972

Age42

HometownFrankfurt

Net Worth$45 Million

GenresGarage rock + New...

InstrumentsAccordion + Vocal...

Performed WithThe Network + Fox...

Record LabelReprise Records

Tré Cool is a German-born American drummer for the rock band Green Day. He replaced the band's former drummer John Kiffmeyer in 1990. He has also played in Samiam, The Lookouts, and the Green Day side projects The Network and Foxboro Hot Tubs.

News + Updates

' The National Museum of the Marine Corps held the second annual MRE Cook-off over the weekend. The winner: John Crist''s sloppy-Joe-and-cheesy-garlic-mashed-potatoes-smothered-imitation-pork-thingy sandwich. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us '

'Four-year-old Noah Fisher loves superheroes, but he didn''t feel like one in his new glasses.
Mom Lindsey Fisher told USA Today that when she told Noah to put his glasses on, he started crying. "I finally got him to tell me while he was crying and he said people would laugh at him," the South Carolina mom said.
But Linsdey knew she could show him that glasses were cool. She sought help from a community others have turned to for social back-up before: Facebook.
"Our sweet 4-year old, No...

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Green Day at The Greek Theater in Berkeley, California on April 16, 2013 by Natalie Nesser
"It''s been a long time since I''ve been able to say this. Berkeley, California!" shouted Billie Joe Armstrong to his screaming hometown crowd at The Greek Theater on April 16th, blowing kisses to the audience as a green-haired Tre Cool ran up to the drums, bassist Mike Dirnt took command of the spot to his left, and a stoic Jason White stood to his right... and the energy only escalated...

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Television sure seems obsessed with a post-apocalyptic planet -- and you can''t throw a remote without hitting a zombie these days. I admit that it''s certainly hard not to be intrigued. What would it be like if most of humanity were gone? What would life on Earth be like if zombies ran the roost?
Well, from the perspective of the living environment a zombie-dominated world may not be so bad.
As far as I can tell, zombies take no interest in nature -- they just look for hu...

Timeline

CHILDHOOD

1972Birth
Born on December 9, 1972.

TEENAGE

199017 Years Old
He replaced the group's former drummer John Kiffmeyer in 1990.
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Tré Cool has also played in The Lookouts, Samiam and the Green Day side-projects The Network and the Foxboro Hot Tubs.<br /><br /> Frank Edwin Wright III was born in Frankfurt, West Germany. He lived in Willits, California with his father and his elder sister Lori. He has German heritage, and his father was a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War. Wright's closest neighbor was Larry Livermore, who at the time was the singer of the punk band The Lookouts. When Wright was 12, Livermore recruited him as the drummer of The Lookouts. And Tre took on the name of "Tré Cool", relying on both the French word "très" (meaning "very") and the English word "cool" as a way of saying he was "very cool". However, the silent "s" has been dropped in the spelling, as a play on the "third" in his name. A common misconception is that Larry Livermore gave Tré Cool his full nickname; however, he was known as "Tré" long before he joined The Lookouts. Read Less

TWENTIES

199522 Years Old
Tré Cool was the first member of Green Day to become a father on January 12, 1995 with the birth of his daughter Ramona Isabel.
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Tre then married his longterm girlfriend Lisea Lyons, a talented photographer with a degree in English Literature and a Masters in Fine Art in March. Lisea and Tre divorced the following year and Lisea moved with Ramona to New York where she raised her daughter and has a successful career as a photographer and artist. Ramona recently appeared as a Kit Kat girl in the Brandeis Theater Company's production of Cabaret. Read Less

200027 Years Old
In 2000 Tré Cool married Claudia Suarez (Bovino)and Tré Cool's second child Frankito (meaning "Little Frank") was born on March 26, 2001.
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He is the godson of Billie Joe Armstrong. Tré Cool is also the godfather of Armstrong's two children, Joseph and Jakob. Read Less

THIRTIES

200330 Years Old
Tré Cool and Suarez divorced in 2003 and Claudia has primary custody of their son Frankito.

200936 Years Old
Tré Cool dated model Cara Provenzano attending many award shows and events together in 2009 and early 2010. In 2010 Tre began dating New York ballet dancer and fashion designer Dena Roberson.
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201138 Years Old
Tré Cool was engaged to Dena at Supperclub in San Francisco on March 31, 2011 and rumors of the engagement were rampant at the final show of American Idiot on Broadway but Tré Cool waited to announce the happy news on his Facebook.

Following his divorce from Claudia, Tre began dating Torry Castellano - drummer from The Donnas - and he told Kerrang when they later split it was due to his inability to remain sober in L.A. Tre then began dating MTV host Ruri Hegarty who remains close friends with band mate Billie Joe Armstrong and attended his 40th birthday in 2012 despite their breakup several years beforehand.

In 2012 Tré Cool began dating New York based model and artist Karli Henneman.
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Henneman appeared briefly in the Green Day documentary Cuatro and a photograph of her legs was posted by Tré Cool posed in front of his car with the hashtag "Lita" (Henneman often signs her paintings using this name). Read Less

Tré Cool began dating Zurich based (South African born) model and business woman Purista Blenk in the summer of 2012.
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In January 2013 they attended the screening of Cuatro together at the Winter X Games in Aspen Colerado. Read Less

FORTIES

Purista also joined Tré Cool on Green Day's 99 Revolutions Tour in 2013 and the couple were filmed enjoying a day off in Sweden at a theme park on June 28, 2013. Tré was engaged to 28 year old former Miss Supercross and paddock girl Sara Rose Lipert in January 2014, and they were married on October 11, 2014.
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Tré Cool sang and played guitar on the tracks "Dominated Love Slave" and "All by Myself", from Kerplunk and Dookie, respectively, both of which he wrote and composed (on "Dominated Love Slave", guitarist and vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong played drums). He wrote and sang the subtrack "Rock and Roll Girlfriend" from the medley "Homecoming" featured on the album American Idiot. He also sang and composed the track "DUI" ("Driving Under the Influence"), which was recorded for Green Day's fifth studio album Nimrod (1997) and was due to be released on the compilation album Shenanigans in 2002, but was omitted and can only be found online.<br /><br /> During a radio interview at Washington DC's alternative station DC 101, Tré Cool sang and played acoustic guitar on a short song entitled "Like a Rat Does Cheese," a song about the pleasure of fellatio. Read Less

Tré has been seen using the updated A Zildjian cymbals that came out early 2013.

201441 Years Old
He played them during the last Australian shows in 2014.
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